Hi, Richard:

   Thanks a lot for your articles. I bought a few your tech books about
C++/ATL and COM in the past decade. Great works!

Yuancai (Charlie) Ye

It is a great undertaking, but I can't find anything knew in there, that I
can't already find on MSDN.

On a  more constructive note.

Event log section fails to mention that code must be running as a member of
Administrators group for it to create Event log source.  This is especially
important for code like the following sample parts to work:

...
        if (EventLog.SourceExists(sourceName))
        {
           EventLog.DeleteEventSource(sourceName);
           EventLog.Delete(logName);
        }
...
     if (!EventLog.SourceExists(sourceName))
     {
        EventLog.CreateEventSource(sourceName, logName);
...

Administrator membership is also a reason for installer to create event log
sources and performance counters instead of doing it from the main
application.

Performance counters section is weak.  A not so obvious problem of counting
time span is not covered at all and it is part of many performance counters.
AverageTimer32 example could be quite valuable.

Multi-instance performance counters can easily run out of memory.
Interesting topic...